Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-07


CLHOOD & Co, Apothecaries lowell, Mass.
Price 81, six FOR So Sold by Druggists. -
figure three where it ought to have been
the figure six. Hurry up to headquarters
with that correction. few hours sgo it
seemed "a il we were about $50 votes
short, but now, by that correction, we are
about 80 votes ahead. HuzZan! TIE
cause is safe. Kindle the tSr barrels up
and down the street.
LONG LIVE THE DEAR people,
That is one style OF election, and it is
very popular, snd there are thousands Of
that kind this autumn.
Bat there will sftec awhile DE another
bi2d Of an election, whether in your day
or mine l cannot say, but it will come
as surely as thst this world IS to be
Eienized and the crooked made straight.
TIE two candidates will be nominated,
not in dirty grogshop caucus, but in 8
place where man can go without being
nauseated by the malOdor of whisky,
onions, cabbage sad tobacco. Among
all good people in social life
we have now the rule that you
should put the best construction
upon mans actions, and il you can not
say something good Of him, say nothing
ct all. That rule in the time Of which l
speak will be applied 10 the political
campaign. We will take our candidate
and X oil bis better qualities. We will
have picture of him IN his best mood,
and a biography bringing out all the
noble deeds of his life. When we speak
| of the opposing candidate we will admit
sill his eXcellenCes, but compare the
| two men, and say cur man is the better.
| Our platform, our speeches, and cur
newspaper columns will have nothing
that sounds or reads like oillingsgate or
rsncor On election dsy, If the wind
blows from the northeast and we feel
chilly by standing at the polls, we will
have hot lemonade or Mochs man will
be as moral and pure on election day SIS
he is on sacramento day. II nothing is
involved in the election but the question
who SHALL have Chs offices, instead Of
standing in political meeting, harEangu-
ing the audience by the hour upon ques-
lions not st sill Involved, we will come
out On the platform and frankly say
Gentlemen, this is very important cleo
ton, because it decides
THE QUESTION OF LIVELIHOOD
for great many people. rhere is the
MAYORS salary Of so many Thousand dol
lars, and the District Attorneys salary
Of so msuy thousand, aud the sherif's
salary Of so msDy thousand, and the
Presidents salary OF go many thousand,
and we have the grea. many friends who
are now out Of position, ard these men
now in Office have had the emoluments
long enough Now give Us chance.
have, myself, my eYe on an office, and
although [ an not candidate on the
ticket now before you, shall get an ap
pointment under the administration, and
inst will be of greet service, for the fact
is am bard up, and | want the law
full salary for some good position.
Some of these men in Office have had the
opportunities not only of supporting
their families but laying up something
for rainy day. Now give Us an equal
opportunity. l have 8 lovely wife and
beautiful children end some relatives de-
pendent upon my success, and tell you
plainly that my reason for being on this
platform tonight is not because l am
afraid the American eagle will be shot in
her sublime fight, out because [ want,
and the presiding officer OF this meeting
wants, and all the vice presidents Of this
meeting want, and the cOmlittee who
got Up the meeting want, and many Of
these gentlemen who clap their hands at
the eloquence Of the speakers want a
good, honest living for hard work done
in the service of the city aud country.
There will Do no hypocrisy in speech
like that, and nothing wrong. II msn
gets $4,000 or $4,000 or $4,000 salary in
the public service it is just as honorable
as though ne got it by selling dry goods
or in daily wages for saving logs. The
ideal electioneeriDg campaign OF which
| speak may be far distant, but so far as
you and are concerned we may our
selves practice it. Remember that
AN ELECTION LIE
is as bad as any other lie, that SANDER in
November is as bad as SANDER in June. |
But few men come out OF the ordeal of
city, state or national elections as good |
as when they went In.
But cannot help sympathiziDg with |
the multitudes of disappointed people at |
this time of the year, the vast multitude |
all over the land who have failed to get |
nomination and the vast multitude who |
in few days will be disappointed by |
non-election. For every position there |
are at least 100 candidates, hence OF ne |
cessity ninety-nine applicants are or will |
be disappointed. By an inexorable law /
we cannot have more than six presidents |
IN q gGUSI5llOu. w unb uG5SOula
thing TO seek the presidency when, out Of |
the l, 600 who think themselves fit for the |
Office, only FIVE men can get it. There is |
more probability that any of them Will
be struck with lightning than that they
will get to be President. The time was
when men so much shrank back from the !
re- responsibilities of Office they had by pen
allies to be compelled to take it. The
court CT Plymouth in 1852 enacted that
whoever should refuse the Office Of Gov
ernor should pay EGO sterling, unless he
should be chosen two years successfully,
aud whoever should refuse tho office OF
Councillor or Magistrate should pay fl0.j
No more such compulsion is necessary,
and the scramble is terrible, rot
yithstgnding all the peril, finan-